News Digest
KYRGYZ PRESIDENT\'S BROTHER LEAVES INVESTMENT POST FOLLOWING NEPOTISM ALLEGATIONS
By empty (1/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Jusupbek Bakiev, President Kurmanbek Bakiev\'s brother, has stepped down from the position of deputy director of the Agency for Community Development and Investment. In an interview with akipress.org on 17 January, the younger Bakiev stressed that he was offered the position through the World Bank, not through any help from his brother, but said that he resigned after charges of nepotism surfaced in the press.ABKHAZIA OPPOSES UN CIVIL POLICE PRESENCE
By empty (1/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Abkhazia opposes the idea of sending UN civil police units to its Gali district, the republic\'s Security Council chief Stanislav Lakoba told the press on Wednesday. \"We want to settle our internal state problems on our own,\" he said. Lakoba also said that \"subversive and terrorist operations in the Gali district are being incited by Georgian special services.CHINESE CO TO DRILL IRAN\'S CASPIAN SEA
By empty (1/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran has signed a deal worth up to $35 million with China Oilfield Services Ltd to drill the deep waters of the Caspian Sea, an executive of Iran\'s North Drilling Company (NDC) said in a television interview. The Chinese company will be paid not only to drill in the 700-metre deep waters, generally considered by upstream experts as beyond Iran\'s technical capabilities, but will train NDC staff over the next three years. \"The deal will be for three years and be worth some $34 or $35 million dollars,\" NDC Managing Director Heydar Bahmani told state television.CHERKESS ORGANIZATIONS ACCUSE ADYGEYA\'S SLAVS OF SOWING ETHNIC HATRED
By empty (1/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Four public organizations representing the Cherkess community of the Republic of Adygeya have lodged a formal complaint with the republican prosecutor\'s office against what they consider \"chauvinistic and xenophobic\" statements made at a congress last month of the Union of Slavs of Adygeya, kavkazweb.net reported on 17 January, citing the \"Caucasus Times.\" At that congress, the Slavs, who account for some 70 percent of the republic\'s total population of 445,000, pledged to renew their campaign to have Adygeya merged into the surrounding Krasnodar Krai and to arm themselves to defend their interests.Visit also
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Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.